Italian university switches to English (ENEM 2013)
Italian university switches to English — By Sean Coughlan, BBC News education correspondent — 16 May 2012
Milan is crowded with Italian icons, which makes it even more of a cultural earthquake that one of Italy's leading universities — the Politecnico di Milano — is going to switch to the English language. The university has announced that from 2014 most of its degree courses — including all its graduate courses — will be taught and assessed entirely in English rather than Italian.
The waters of globalisation are rising around higher education — and the university believes that if it remains Italian-speaking it risks isolation and will be unable to compete as an international institution. "We strongly believe our classes should be international classes — and the only way to have international classes is to use the English language", says the university's rector, Giovanni Azzone.
Fonte: BBC News, acesso em 31/07/2012.
As línguas têm um papel importante na comunicação entre pessoas de diferentes culturas. Diante do movimento de internacionalização no ensino superior, a universidade Politecnico di Milano decidiu
- A) elaborar exames em língua inglesa para o ingresso na universidade.
- B) ampliar a oferta de vagas na graduação para alunos estrangeiros.
- C) investir na divulgação da universidade no mercado internacional.
- D) substituir a língua nacional para se inserir no contexto da globalização.
- E) estabelecer metas para melhorar a qualidade do ensino de italiano.
